Dilberting Stata
As we've noted before, MIT students can be dangerous with their architecture:
The building, folks, is the Stata Center; and apparently, the decor is in response to this from the Wired article:
Given Stata's crew, it's no surprise that a lot of the gripes focus on their caves - or lack thereof. Stata has 370 lockable offices for 1,000 people, and math is something this crowd is good at. When Microsoft comes to recruit, notes one doctoral candidate, "one of their big selling points is: 'Our offices have doors.' With the kind of focused work people do here, spin-up and spin-down times are excessive." (Translation: Distractions are bad.) Gehry's team came up with plywood partitions. To which the grad students answered: Dilbert.
Update: Clearly I just failed my iconic knowledge test. It's actually a Where's Waldo hack, and Waldo is everywhere.
